CVE-2018-20002

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2018-12-10 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-772

Description

The _bfd_generic_read_minisymbols function in syms.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31, has a memory leak via a crafted ELF file, leading to a denial of service (memory consumption), as demonstrated by nm.

Affected products

F5 Traffix SDC: from 5.0.0 through 5.1.0; 4.4.0
GNU Binutils: 2.31
NetApp VASA Provider for Clustered Data ONTAP: from 7.2

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106142
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-01
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190221-0004/
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23952
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=c2f5dc30afa34696f2da0081c4ac50b958ecb0e9
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K62602089
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106142
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-01
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190221-0004/
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23952
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=c2f5dc30afa34696f2da0081c4ac50b958ecb0e9

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